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Rise to the challenges posed by today’s complex public health and healthcare environment with resources
for students and professionals in the Health Sciences. We are committed to supporting your efforts to improve the health of populations and healthcare delivery, all while meeting the objectives of the triple aim. Our authoritative resources span an array of essential and hot topics in Health Administration and Public Health to ensure success whether you’re working in communities, at healthcare organizations, or are engaged in health policy and research.
Public Health
James M. Shultz PhD, MS Lisa Sullivan PhD, MA Sandro Galea MD, MPH, DrPH
This foundational textbook is designed for students who are launching their public health studies and preparing for professions in the field. Our health is generated throughout our lives and by the world around us—by where we live, where we work, and who we interact with on a daily basis. This book therefore takes a unique approach to teaching public health. It combines an eco-social framework with a life course perspective on population health to help the student understand how our experiences and our context shape our health and how this informs the practice of public health. Also featuring audio
commentary of cases featured in the book and 15 new cases for Fall 2020 on COVID-19.
Jonas and Kovner’s Health Care Delivery in the United States, 12th Edition
James R. Knickman PhD Brian Elbel PhD, MPH
Featuring 15 chapter summary podcasts and a rich ancillary package! This fully updated and revised 12th edition of the highly acclaimed textbook on health care delivery provides graduate and undergraduate students with a comprehensive survey of health care in the United States with topics ranging from the organization of care, the politics surrounding health care in the United States, to population health and vulnerable populations, health care costs and value, health care financing, and health information technology.
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION Applied Problem-Solving in Healthcare Management Sandra Potthoff PhD Justine Mishek MHA Gregory W. Hart MHA
Applied Problem-Solving in Healthcare Management is a practical textbook devoted to developing and strengthening problem-solving and decision-making leadership competencies of healthcare administration students and healthcare management professionals.
9780826165640 October 2020
Healthcare Quality Management A Case Study Approach Zachary Pruitt PhD, MHA, CPH Candace S. Smith PhD, RN, NEA-BC Eddie Pérez-Ruberté
Healthcare Quality Management: A Case Study Approach, is the first comprehensive case-based text providing real-world scenarios and fostering essential problem-solving skills with in-depth healthcare management examples, tools, and discussion that will prepare students for diverse quality management positions. Also featuring audio interviews with experts examining case-based scenarios in quality management practice.
9780826145130 February 2020
Health Services Research and Analytics Using Excel® Nalin Johri PhD, MPH, MA
This is a practical resource provides one integrated, application-oriented resource for common quantitative, qualitative, and spatial analyses using only Excel. With an easy-to-follow presentation of qualitative and quantitative data, students can foster a balanced decision-making approach and cultivate analytical skills that are necessary in a data-driven healthcare world. Including over 100 videos featuring step-by-step applications and tutorials of Excel.
9780826150271 February 2020 $65.00 278 pp | Paperback
$90.00 404 pp | Paperback
$80.00 252 pp | Paperback Strategic Planning in Healthcare An Introduction for Health Professionals Brian C. Martin PhD, MBA
This is a practical guide to the theory of strategic planning and the principles of strategic management that apply to all organizational settings. It provides a solid theoretical framework, supplemented with examples and a common case, which is reinforced by hands-on practical student exercises and chapter-specific worksheets.
9780826164834 November 2018
Operations Management in Healthcare Strategy and Practice Corinne M. Karuppan PhD, CPIM Nancy E. Dunlap MD, PhD, MBA Michael R. Waldrum MD, MSc, MBA
This comprehensive, practice-oriented text illustrates how healthcare organizations can gain a competitive edge through superior operations. Underscoring the importance of a strategic perspective, the book describes how to attain excellence in the four competitive priorities: quality, cost, timeliness, and flexibility.
9780826126528 June 2016
Improving Financial and Operations Performance A Healthcare Leader’s Guide Richard Priore, ScD, MHA, FACHE, FACMPE
To be successful in today’s environment leaders must simultaneously improve quality and service while reducing expense. Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader’s Guide is a collection of proven effective tips, tools, and techniques accumulated from real-world challenges and lessons learned logically organized to provide a straightforward approach to planning, assessing, managing, and monitoring a business enterprise to improve profitability.
